The Computer - My Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993)

Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the first programming languages, the Plan Calculus, including features copied only decades later in other languages. He wrote numerousbooks and articles and won many honors and awards. This is his autobiography, written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style, full of anecdotes, reminiscences, and philosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war, to a ripe old age andwell-earned celebrity.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	1993
Foreword by:	F.L. Bauer
Authors:	Konrad Zuse
Translators:	P. McKenna • J.A. Ross
Foreword by:	H. Zemanek
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-08151-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN:	3-642-08151-7
Barcode:	9783642081514

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